PsychENCODE Consortium

Description

The PsychENCODE Consortium has a collective goal of accelerating discovery of non‐coding functional genomic
elements in human brain, and elucidating their role in the molecular pathophysiology of psychiatric
disorders. The PEC is producing a public resource of multi‐dimensional genomic data using unbiased
genome‐wide approaches on tissue and cell‐type specific samples from approximately 1,000 phenotypically
well‐characterized healthy and diseased human post‐mortem brains. The PEC also shares data from functional
characterization of disease‐associated regulatory elements and variants in in‐vitro and in‐vivo model
systems.

The PsychENCODE Consortium investigators are committed to the release of data and results with the
anticipation that data shared in a rapid and transparent manner will speed the pace of research to the
benefit of both the PsychENCODE teams and the greater research community. Details of the currently released
data are available on the PsychENCODE
Knowledge Portal.

Access to Data

Access to PsychENCODE Consortium data from human studies is managed by the NRGR Access Request system, but
the data are distributed through the Synapse system. Animal model data are available as open access through
Synapse. To access the PsychENCODE human data, applicants must first register for a Synapse account and
obtain a Synapse data access token on the PsychENCODE Consortium Knowledge Portal. Applicants must then
complete a
NRGR access request. The
applicant's Synapse token must be included with the NRGR submission package along with the other required
documents.
Investigators using PsychENCODE data in publications should include this
acknowledgement.

Please note that the NRGR does not have any biomaterials associated with the PsychENCODE Consortium data.